Recent Articles
FEB 14, 2013 • Journal
The Missing Ethics of Mining [Full Text]
There are many mining industries, and each has its own culture, directives, structure, purpose, and pathologies.
FEB 14, 2013 • Journal
Editors' Note [Full Text]
As we approach our second century, the Carnegie Council will remain the home for energetic, rigorous, and creative thinking on the ethics of war. In ...
FEB 14, 2013 • Journal
Thinking Ethically about the Use of Force [Full Text]
BY CIAN O'DRISCOLL What does it mean to think ethically about the use of force? This beguilingly simple question is difficult to address.
FEB 14, 2013 • Journal
Contemporary Just War Thinking: Which Is Worse, to Have Friends or Critics?
The increasingly widespread and energetic engagement with the idea of just war over the last fifty years of thinking on morality and armed conflict—especially ...
FEB 14, 2013 • Journal
Divisions within the Ranks? The Just War Tradition and the Use and Abuse of History
Have the critics of the historical approach to just war theory landed it a knock-out blow, or can it withstand the bricks and bats that ...
FEB 14, 2013 • Journal
Just War Thinking as a Social Practice
Given the niche occupied by just war thinking in contemporary policy discourse, it is worth asking several basic questions about the just war vocabulary. What ...
FEB 14, 2013 • Journal
From Jus ad Bellum to Jus ad Vim: Recalibrating Our Understanding of the Moral Use of Force
Just war scholars often do not differentiate between force and war, but rather talk about bellum justum as if all uses of force implied the ...
FEB 14, 2013 • Journal
Poverty and Morality: Religious and Secular Perspectives, Edited by William A. Galston and Peter H. Hoffenberg
Covering the six major religious traditions and such secular perspectives as classical liberalism, contemporary liberal egalitarianism, Marxism, and feminism, this book offers a valuable collection ...
FEB 14, 2013 • Journal
Briefly Noted
This section contains a round-up of recent notable books in the field of international affairs.
FEB 14, 2013 • Article
Saddam's Pistol, and Yours
"In the current debate over gun regulation a simple point is being missed. Every citizen has the right to a gun. But shouldn't every man, ...